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Product Categories and Product Attributes

Figure 72. Layered Navigation

Default Layered Navigation

In Magento, two properties appear as navigation filters by default: PRICE and CATEGORY.

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PRICE: Price ranges are selected logically in order to provide another filter for navigation.

The ranges themselves are determined by the prices of products contained within them. There are never more than ten price ranges displayed at a time and products are distributed accordingly.

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CATEGORY: If you define a category as an Anchor Category (see “Display Settings Tab,”

page 65), its subcategories are displayed as layered navigation options. Figure 72 shows that

the first filter is CATEGORY and it features two options: Shirts and Shoes. In this example,

Shirts and Shoes are subcategories of the category that is represented by this layered navigation block.

Defining Layered Navigation Filters

The additional filters in Figure 72 are Manufacturer and Shoe Type. These are product attributes that

have been selected as filterable. This is defined in the Use in Layered Navigation field under

Catalog > Attributes, as described in “Creating Attributes,” page 73.

There are two types of filterable attributes:

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Filterable (with results): Links appear only for values where the number of results (the number in parentheses next to each value) is greater than zero.

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Filterable (no results): Links appear for all values, regardless of the number of results.

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